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Thomas wrote:
> Ada needs LOTS of beginner-friendly tutorials,

My favourite is John English's "Craft of Object-Oriented Programming":

http://www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/~je/adacraft/

> interesting open source projects,

Ada is peculiar in that there are few projects but a high proportion
of them are "interesting". There are about a hundred projects on
SourceForge, for example. One has to search for them.

> thriving communities

Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I think comp.lang.ada is a triving
community.

> and a bunch of people that understands that Ada's ability to draw in new users equals its ability to survive.

This bunch exists, but is not big enough and faces an uphill battle
against inertia and ignorance.

--
Ludovic Brenta.